GREEN BAY - Mark Treinen has been named news director for the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin region.

Treinen will lead local news coverage for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin's 10 newsrooms in central and northeastern Wisconsin.

Treinen has been the news director for the network's four central Wisconsin newsrooms in Marshfield, Wausau, Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids since 2015. He also has led the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Watchdog and Investigations Team since 2017.

His new role expands those duties to include newsrooms in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan and Manitowoc.

Treinen joined Gannett in 1994 as a reporter at the Wausau Daily Herald. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Treinen and his wife, Heather, have two sons, both in college.

Since joining Gannett, Treinen has overseen work that has won USA TODAY NETWORK and Wisconsin Newspaper Association awards. From his current office in Wausau, Treinen has worked with community organizations like United Way of Marathon County and Toward One Wausau, which aimed to improve relations among people of different ethnic backgrounds.

Treinen will be based in Green Bay where he will succeed Robert Zizzo, editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette for the last four years. Zizzo recently accepted the newly created position of regional sports news director for the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“It’s a great day when two of our best leaders get promoted,” said Jim Fitzhenry, vice president of news for USA TODAY NETWORK - Central Wisconsin. “Robert (Zizzo) is moving into a dream job for someone who grew up in Milwaukee and loves Wisconsin sports. To have Mark (Treinen) expanding his leadership into Green Bay and across our network will only strengthen our newsrooms and local journalism.”

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Robert Zizzo(Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN)

Zizzo, a Hartland native who has spent the past four years as editor for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, initially joined the Gannett-owned Green Bay paper in 2012 after 11 years with the Fresno (Calif.) Bee, where he served first as sports editor and then metro editor. He’s also held editor positions at the Las Vegas Sun, Wisconsin State Journal and Sheboygan Press.

In the immediate future, Zizzo plans to split time between Green Bay and the Milwaukee area, where his parents still live. He lives with his wife, Sara, in De Pere with their youngest daughter, a junior in high school. His adult twin daughters live in Madison and Arlington, Virginia.

"I couldn’t think of a better person to serve Green Bay and the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin than Mark," Zizzo said.